Ihr, die ihr euch nach Christo nennt

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Ihr, die ihr euch nach Christo nennt

Author: Jakob Ritter

Ritter, Jakob, son of Samuel Ritter, assessor of the Court of Appeal and Syndic o the Magdeburg administration at Halle, was born at Halle, May 29, 1627. After the completion of his university course at Wittenberg, he was appointed secretary of the Magdeburg administration, and Justiciary at Langendorf, near Weissenfels. He died at Halle, Aug. 14, 1669. (Koch, iii. 352; Blätter für Hymnologie, 1886, p. 2. In the latter his volume of 1666, see below, is spoken of as "not apparently hitherto inspected by any hymnologist." The present writer had however discovered and examined it at Wernigerode some eix months earlier.)
Ritter's hymns appeared in his translation of a work by Dr. Daniel Sennert (b. at Breslau, Nov. 25,1572; d. at Wittenberg,… Go to person page >